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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 127–153.
Published: 01 May 2021
... achievement award) in the name of other creative directors not yet in the spotlight. In 2018, Varda joined with the 50/50 en 2020 collective, a gender equity campaign, on the Cannes red carpet to call for gender parity and greater transparency in the festival's process of selecting films to screen...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 1–19.
Published: 01 December 2018
... of women’s cinema at present, visible in the rise of the Berlin School, the development of women-oriented production collectives, and the resurgence of feminist organizing on behalf of gender parity in the contemporary German film industry. feminist film theory German women’s movement neo-liberalism...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 129–145.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Hester Baer; Angelica Fenner In this conversation, which took place in Berlin, Ger­many, in August 2017, filmmaker Tatjana Turankskyj discusses recent developments in Pro Quote Film, the feminist initiative she cofounded with several other women filmmakers to promote gender parity in German film...
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Camera Obscura (2018) 33 (3 (99)): 147–155.
Published: 01 December 2018
... film authorship, namely: feminist structures (WIFTG), demands for a quota system (PQF), and a grassroots feminist mentoring collective of film school graduates (ITW). gender parity German film industry quota system film collectives Verband der Filmarbeiterinnen Copyright © 2018 Camera...
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Camera Obscura (2020) 35 (2 (104)): 159–169.
Published: 01 September 2020
..., has come under criticism; recent ini- tiatives to foster gender parity led to the 50/50 by 2020 pledge at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. While major festivals are finally responding to the demand to program films by women, a vital need for the supportive community fostered by smaller, more...
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Camera Obscura (1989) 7 (2-3 (20-21)): 151–154.
Published: 01 December 1989
... Technologies of Gender (1987), theories of female spectatorship, like work on female subjectivity, need to heed the variety and differences that exist among women, to recognize that there is no universal “fe- male.” I was surprised by the third question-has the notion...
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Camera Obscura (1991) 9 (3 (27)): 166–173.
Published: 01 September 1991
...Amanda Howell Copyright © 1992 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991 Susan Jeffords’s The Remasculinization of America: Gender and the Vietnam War (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989) Amanda Howell We must ask more often how things...
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Camera Obscura (2021) 36 (1 (106)): 1–7.
Published: 01 May 2021
... in the French monument the Pantheon, where so few women have been honored, Varda also opens questions of national reflection on gender and historical commemoration. Varda was not only a brilliant creator but also a shrewd businesswoman who made most of her work outside the mainstream film industry...
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Camera Obscura (2012) 27 (3 (81)): 1–37.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., predictable genre by undermining the standard structures of episodic narration and tying its plot to contemporary controversies and politics.1 Tapping into a number of broad social changes, the program admirably portrayed a version of gender parity, included a multiracial cast, depicted love and sex...
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Camera Obscura (2001) 15 (3 (45)): 71–113.
Published: 01 December 2001
... was to align the “cure” for political problems with normative gender and sexual behavior. Pressure Point’s narrative dramatizes this effort to cure, but it also reveals the ideological tensions embed- ded in such a project. In the process of converting Lindner’s...
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Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 50–69.
Published: 01 September 1999
...• struction of national and cultural citizenship, as well as to examine the gender, race, and class dimensions of the national narratives pro• duced by a contemporary Hollywood film explicitly addressed to an audience of adolescent and pre-adolescent US girls. The impetus for my inquiry into Clueless...
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Camera Obscura (1988) 6 (1 (16)): 154–168.
Published: 01 January 1988
... featured (and continue to print) articles about the new• woman sit-corns. In February of 1985 TV Guide gave its "cheers" to the "upgrading of women in prime time this season" because the National Commission on Working Women found that female characters were ap• proaching numerical parity with males...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (3 (36)): 49–65.
Published: 01 September 1995
...- sentations such as the ones I’ve described function as a vehicle for the 50 ideological legitimation of views of race, class, and gender in social and cultural life, and to quote George Lipsitz, are “charged with some responsibility for making new social relations credible and legitimate...
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Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (2 (32)): 102–123.
Published: 01 September 1993
... to women’s daily lives and ways of being, and often it provides a way to critique race and gender stereotypes, an argument to which I will return. This connection is more important than the actual bits of pop culture which populate the series. Charlene, as a character...
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Camera Obscura (1999) 14 (3 (42)): 70–95.
Published: 01 September 1999
... in this new frontier, particularly since the flexible parameters of screen identity provide an anonymity that offers room for gender play. Feminist critics, however, observe that real-life women in such cyberspace forums as Usenet groups, email lists, Internet Relay Chat lines (IRC), and multi-user...
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Camera Obscura (1995) 12 (2 (35)): 6–23.
Published: 01 May 1995
... economic authority and his more permanent social parity. Is this discrepancy a rationale for his brooding or his anger? More importantly, however, G is presented as a post-industrial o.g., an original gangsta forced to spend more time engaged in leisure- making than profit-making activities because his...
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Camera Obscura (2004) 19 (1 (55)): 43–75.
Published: 01 May 2004
... to the moral panic around lone motherhood.8 By considering the gender politics as they are rendered through the mollifying nos- talgic gloss of the heritage film, we can see that what appears to be a utopian construction of Howards End actually functions as what Michel Foucault calls a “heterotopia...
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Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 1–39.
Published: 01 September 2000
... the structure of the narrative. The characters seem to experience the same pressures as the films themselves. Thus, fifth, these films, primarily relationship comedies, share anxieties about sex and gender that set them apart from most earlier...
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Camera Obscura (1992) 10 (2 (29)): 57–90.
Published: 01 May 1992
... inscription of the female body and a critical feminist voicing of women’s agency. Precisely because of its gendered character and public invisibility, endometriosis illuminates the coexistence of an up-to-date endoscopic panopticon (laparoscopy, laser laparoscopy, video laparoscopy ) with an old...